Diamond Heist

Diamond Heist

The synopsis of Diamond Heist, along with its cover art, is that of an action driven crime thriller with a lot of gun action. Top billed actors and bad asses Michael Madsen and Vinnie Jones only reinforce that assumption. This, however, turns out to be a lie and a quickly, the viewer will learn this. It appears that the titular diamond heist was barely scratched, this film is essentially about two Hungarian buffoons who are imposters of the Magic Boys, a famous male stripping duo.

You ask, why would two average Hungarians volunteers male strippers? In order to run away from Vargas (Jones) Their boss, champagne factory’s owner dat they saw kill a man. They are in London now, huh Well, Vargas is also a diamond smugger who has friends in this former Chippendales dancer turned club owner Terence very played by Madsen. They go on to find love (not together) and rescue Torres from Vargas after which they became competent dancers.

Magic Boys in Hungary, on the other hand, is a Hungarian comedy that has an English language version, Diamond Heist. Apart from an actor named Bad News, in his directing and writing roles was also one of the main characters of this movie, Rábert Koltai. The name might not be familiar for most outside Hungary but Koltai had such a reputation there that casting him from the get go in an international comedy was an interesting decision. If that is the reason many films have yet to see the light of day, Diamond Heist should change perception altogether.

It features jokes that attempt to poke fun at members of the LGBT community and make them the punch line of the jokes. For example, there is one where the fake Magic Boys costumes were comedians in the first place wanted to dress in drag against their will. In order for something to be funny, there has to be a real joke rather than just the act of cross dressing itself.

And even more, when two of the fictitious Magic Boys are assaulted by a fat hairy man, they may of been raped, and this was also regarded as a comic moment. many people will also think that I am being serious while I am referring to sexual violence in such a haughty way, but those are not synonyms. Gay men also found a place in this shameful discussion, for the audience of this film, they also had to present them in order for them to present an embarrassing joke.

Despite these moments, Koltai does appear to be the director with some flair, once in a while his stylistic touches assist in making Diamond Heist pass for a tamer incarnation of a Guy Ritchie flick.

Another issue causing concern in Diamond Heist was the frequent confusion that most viewers experienced in understanding the plot of the movie at times. A classic one of such instances includes the case of David (Csaba Pindroch), one of the fake Magic Boys, and his lover Cherry Valentine (Jamelia) a smuggler who worked for Terence.

Initially, it appears that the two met outside the film. Out of nowhere they are together as a couple without any anticipation or teasing. Such occasions reinforced the impression of Diamond Heist being a comedy superimposed on a crime drama with a significant amount of the material that should have lasted more than 90 minutes cut out for good measure.

Michael Madsen was one good aspect of the film. Most of the time, he appeared to be in a hotel room, drinking and smoking marijuana. He takes part in the lowlight of the film which involved Madsen in a gold lame jacket trashing a hotel breakfast buffet because there was no lactose free yogurt available. I suppose another lowlight of the film would be the close up of Madsen badly photoshopped as a stripper which was poorly done and rather embarrassing in the film.

Random Media is the producer of Diamond Heist when released on DVD. The DVD delivers good content with an anamorphic 1.85:1 image. One of the high points in the film was the cinematography, it was very beautifully done and high quality. A very good emphasis has been placed on just this element of the film in the disc.

The DVD is accompanied by a 5.1 Dolby Digital mix. The sound too is nice just as the image clear. Both the music and the dialogues sound seamless. While there is a lot of the loud Dance Pop thump which accompanies the film, it never drowns out the words. Although there are many different accents in the film there are some easily discernable words.

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